What is Google Wave?
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Google describes it as “an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.” Any individual wave can be part conversation and part document – which makes for an interesting way to collaborate, improve productivity and reduce duplicated data. Each wave is stored centrally on a Google server (although eventually the way that Wave works will be able to be duplicated by other providers – similar to the way in which email servers work) and can be updated by multiple users in real-time. In addition to updating the core document, messages and annotations can be exchanged and anyone with access to the wave can view the changes happening as they occur.
So, although Wave started out as a way of “fixing” email – it doesn’t appear that it will be limited to this alone – even though the preview of Wave is in the early stages many developers are getting involved and ensuring that the initial vision of the project will be far exceeded by the final outcome. Already innovative projects involving applications for Project Management, translation, app convergence and many others are available for testing.
Check out the Google Wave introduction video:
At the moment Wave is a preview only, you can request an invitation here.